Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Ryan Ripley, host of Agile for Humans, interviewed Gil Broza and me in AFH 102: The Influential Agile Leader. We spoke about the workshop I lead with Gil, the Influential Agile Leader. If you are interested in helping your agile transformation, do listen to the podcast and join us for the conversation.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 5, 2023

link] Cross-Cultural Strategy #1: Culturally Agile Leadership Leaders increasingly face cross-cultural differences working with diverse customers and employees. Cross-cultural differences require leaders with cultural agility. Successful, culturally agile leaders can see themself through another person's perspective.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 9, 2018

Ryan Ripley interviewed me on his podcast, Agile for Humans 83 about Create Your Successful Agile Project. I didn’t stint on my opinions or on my experience with agile teams. I don’t find it useful in an agile project unless you use incremental funding. We had a blast. That’s me.

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Steve Shu Consulting

MAY 4, 2018

Develop interview guides according to the problem solving structure and conduct interviews with the interview guides in mind. Take raw notes roughly in line with the interview guides. In some cases the engagement team may create (up front) an entire blueprint to execute the project.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2020

We collaborated with LucidMeetings to create this wonderful new class about hiring: How to Discover, Interview, and Hire Amazing Remote People. The content is based on these books: From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Guidelines for interview duration and the interview matrix. Hiring Geeks That Fit.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

The more work you ask a candidate to do—at any point in the interview—the more you're asking for free work or consulting. Especially if you want to use agile approaches. Mark Kilby and I developed a self-study Remote Interviewing workshop you might like. See Can Auditions Be Too Much of a Good Thing ?)

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. Rather than debating the advantages of agile teams, why not start demonstrating them? Perhaps my journey to agile will help you figure out how to begin your own.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. They keep customers happier.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 3, 2021

Follow up a survey with interviews that allow you to probe for insight, clarity and really good phrases. The missing link between great intentions and great results is often a little talked-about leadership trait - emotional agility and courage. Related Tutorial Video: "Ideas to Spark your Website Copy Clarity". Go to Amazon.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 19, 2024

I had the pleasure of interviewing Stefan Wolpers about his new book: The Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide: Challenges Every Scrum Team Faces and How to Overcome Them.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

I started this series with many specific concerns about a particular interview question: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. Note: This is a terrible interview question because it's hypothetical. Agility requires a collaborative cross-functional team. Not one person.

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1 to 1

JUNE 9, 2021

This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity. Do you think retailers will be able to maintain the agility that they demonstrated in 2020? Not agility. But those who are able to maintain agility for today’s standards will probably continue to survive. Listen to the full interview at the CX Pod.

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On the Brink Podcast

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

I was introduced to Anthony Willoughby by Diana Wu David after our podcast interview. This led him to found the Nomadic School of Business, whose c oncept of a nomadic mindset helps leaders and their teams achieve clarity, purpose and agility. Learn how a nomadic mindset helps you see where you are going!

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 3, 2021

On the Maintainable podcast, Robby Russell often interviews people about technical issues. We discussed the Modern Management Made Easy books among other topics: A little about the origins of agile approaches. Not this time! The issue of “too many meetings” and why they might need to be called something else.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. This can be accomplished through interviews with leaders or leading an interactive workshop.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Tom Cagley interviewed me for his Software Process and Measurement Cast (podcast) a couple of weeks ago and the podcast is live. See SPaMCAST 468 – Johanna Rothman, Create Your Successful Agile Project. We had a blast. I ranted and raved (as I am wont to do) and had a great time discussing some of the chapters in the book.

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BCG

MAY 5, 2016

Imagine that these giants are quickly followed by a multitude of agile new entrants. Imagine that the giants unleash their brand, technology, data, and scale to bring new value propositions to these individual customers.

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Ben de Haldevang

JUNE 7, 2023

But I landed on my feet shortly afterwards when you mention “agility”, “adaptability” and “responsiveness”! With your choice of case studies and the points made in the interviews, you have managed to conceptualize transformation without turning your book into an obscure PhD thesis.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 18, 2018

The great Joanna Penn interviewed me and the podcast is now live: Strategy And Business Plans For Authors With Johanna Rothman. Why did she interview me? I mentioned agile approaches. If you write and self-publish, you should listen to Joanna. If you own a small business, you might want to listen to her, too. We had a blast.

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Cheryl Cran

JUNE 28, 2016

I had the opportunity to follow up with Launi post event to interview her on leadership, change leadership and more. Where credit unions have the advantage is that we are agile and first to market with many things such as ATM’s, pictures of checks etc. We need to be agile and ready to adapt to the ongoing disruptions.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

Standard agile approaches like Scrum and SAFe work pretty well for that. In the past couple of years, IBM Global Technology Services undertook its own agile transformation. I interviewed the leaders of many fabled Scrum companies, agile certification firms, and some Big 4 consultants, but the advice we got was all product-focused.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 2, 2019

Here's how I think of the various agile product roles: product managers, product owners, and business analysts. I do not like “Chief Product Owner” because I don't like “Chief” anything in an agile approach. BAs might interview customers and potential customers to help everyone understand what's going on.

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LSA Global

MAY 25, 2022

Conducted 360-degree interviews with key People Team leaders and influencers. To create executive team alignment, LSA Global: 1. Assessed the Current Situation. Reviewed previous business plans, employee feedback, and key growth processes.

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QEmploy

MAY 9, 2019

Interviews have been conducted with clients and consultants in order to give a realistic and broad outlook. It was also said in our client interviews that there are too many brokers out there. The terms, conditions and contract details are taken up during the interview process. This is where agile methodologies come in.

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BCG

DECEMBER 12, 2016

But while many companies are restructuring their governance to become digital ready, there is still much to be done in terms of implementing agile at scale, capitalizing on open innovation, and hiring new digital talent. The results are striking. See Exhibit 1.).

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Cheryl Cran

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Here is the fantastic interview with Pat Kramer CEO of BDO Canada on future of work. We are focused on arming our leaders with the ability to lead change, to increase agility and innovation skills. We are creating a very agile business model even with our scale and size. What is your leadership philosophy?

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Organizes the interview in ways that clarify the ideas. Listen to our conversation on Modern Management Made Easy with Johanna Rothman. I started listening to Scott's podcast a couple of years ago. I regularly listen because he: Selects people I've never heard of before. Makes his guests sound smart. I always learn something from his podcast.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Assume that people have lives and it’s worth your time to phone-screen people before you ask them to come in for an interview. Respect your candidates by preparing for the interview. Learn how to have a conversation in an interview (with questions and auditions). Career ladders are not a guarantee of a fair assessment.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

I subscribe to his podcast because I like the way he interviews guests. Full disclosure: I met Andy back in 1999 at the Software Development conference. So we've known each other for a long time. He looks beyond the obvious to deeper insights. I'm thrilled to say he did that with the Modern Management Made Easy books, too.

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Asamby Consulting

MARCH 17, 2023

Organizational development can help small businesses develop the agility and resilience they need to adapt to changing market conditions. Small business owners can use a variety of tools and techniques, including surveys, focus groups, and interviews, to gather data.

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1 to 1

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity. So they really need to think about agile, fast, predictive ways to see where the market’s going. Listen to the full interview at the CX Pod. Let’s start by talking about some broad trends.

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1 to 1

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity. So they really need to think about agile, fast, predictive ways to see where the market’s going. Listen to the full interview at the CX Pod. Let’s start by talking about some broad trends.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In high growth companies, managers often spend more than 50 percent of their time recruiting, interviewing and onboarding new team members. The challenge for new managers is not only to master the five stages of their role but to expand their thinking so they are agile and flexible enough to meet the inevitably changing demands of the future.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

To understand what digital leaders do differently, Korn Ferry not only drew on broad research into business change but also interviewed leaders who are driving transformation at some of the world’s most successful organizations. Agile organizations are connected organizations. Connectivity.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2017

We answered this question by interviewing freelancers in a wide range of industries — from tech to advertising. And what we found in our interviews was an interesting reinforcement of our prior work on employer branding and agile talent. In our interview, Charles, a U.S.-based Andy Molinsky.

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